Steve Benson by Steve Benson

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  1. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Uh-Oh, this is a sticky one.

  2. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    Maybe he doesn’t inhale.

  3. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    HUMP with the blue dogs fighting back he is under more stress and having a hard time heee heee heee.
    BTW, Glenn Nye (D VA2d) is one.

  4. Obamascares

    Obamascares said, 4 months ago

    In my state when Obama tells our Senators to jump the only thing they ask him is:

    “HOW HIGH, OH GREAT ONE?”

  5. dwyant

    dwyant said, 4 months ago

    Yes, he is an obomination!

  6. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    This does point to a problem that the “lets change the health life style habits of Americans” face.

    We like fatty food, smoking, speeding and remote controls.

  7. Right_On

    Right_On said, 4 months ago

    Lots of comments from the left on this one …

  8. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 4 months ago

    He’s trying to quit, as example, and get some people taken care of, more than anyone on the right has tried in decades. Stopping all the subsidies to tobacco producers might also be a good idea. Don’t make it illegal, just stop the tax subsidies to the growers. That would provide quite a bit to support health care.

  9. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 4 months ago

    Right_On, that’s not so. GNW, dwyant, HOWGOZIT, Joy BV and (most of the time) oldlegodad are all blogging from the right. Or was that sarcasm?

  10. wbr

    wbr said, 4 months ago

    GNWachs said, about 6 hours ago

    This does point to a problem that the “lets change the health life style habits of Americans” face.

    We like fatty food, smoking, speeding and remote controls.

    can i be food czar?

  11. wbr

    wbr said, 4 months ago

    GNWachs said, about 6 hours ago

    This does point to a problem that the “lets change the health life style habits of Americans” face.

    We like fatty food, smoking, speeding and remote controls.

    can i be food czar?

  12. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    motive–trying the knowledge thing that escapes you so often again?

  13. hank197857

    hank197857Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    has anyone here ever been a smoking addict and tried to quit? it ain’t easy. i’m still fighting that battle. speaking of battles, the military is comtemplating becoming smoke free. yeah, right … tell that to the soldier in afghanistan. incoming! i don’t think kicking the habit is high on his list of concerns.

  14. fennec

    fennec said, 4 months ago

    Howie, get a dog…you’ll feel MUCH better.

  15. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    yeah, hank, i quit several times. i do know how hard it is - non smokers don’t know. i’ve heard it’s easier to give up alcohol.

    tried the patch, acupuncture, gum - all successful for a while - maybe a year max. two years ago my doc prescribed “chantix” - and i haven’t smoked in two years. you take it about a month that’s all. studies find that there are undesireable side effects, but i had none. my voice got higher!

  16. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    motive just gets under my skin fennec; just try to “repay” don’t mean any harm.

  17. lightartsteacher

    lightartsteacher said, 3 months ago

    I did a speech, for the camera, in college on smoking, effects, so on. The surgeon generals report said that the addictive effects of the nicotine, artificially enhanced, mind you, because they first remove it, and then add it back, are greater than heroin addiction. The companies selling tobacco KNEW this. They were not breaking any laws, so they did it without any penalty. The stuff is a proven poison, even inhaling it by being too near others using it, and still…. It isn’t illegal! The government agencies overseeing all this ignored this for years, because of lobbyists from the tobacco cartels.

  18. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    oldlego, it’s amusing to just sit back and watch. Build a lot of models with what I used to “burn”.

  19. hank197857

    hank197857Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    chantix. thank you, parker.

  20. petergrt

    petergrt said, 3 months ago

    I hope that it is one of those exploding once … The time is running out - fast

    As more people discover what’s in the thousands of pages that 0bama and the Democrats have, and continue to jam down our throats, it ain’t going to be pretty.

    His popularity is already below that of W’s - at the same time in his first term …

  21. Vasmosn

    Vasmosn said, 3 months ago

    More people are concerned with getting health care reform than are concerned by all the mythical ghosts in the “thousands of pages.” Instead of worrying about those alleged problems in the bill, please point them out so people can tell what’s real and what’s not. We already know that we pay more for health care than any country and still aren’t covering everyone like we should. Any attempt to improve on that should be welcome. As for W, it’s pretty easy to maintain a certain level of popularity if you just maintain the status quo. When you try to actually FIX problems a lot of people are not going to be happy until they see results.

  22. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 3 months ago

    Besides, at that time of his term Bush was not in the situation of having to contain a major economic crisis, the development of two wars, and a slew of international problems. I think we are comparing apples to oranges here.

  23. petergrt

    petergrt said, 3 months ago

    Or maybe, just maybe, more and more people are realizing the fact that we have got a communist, or is it community, organizer for President, and they are not quite ready turn the USA into a Community, just yet …

  24. fennec

    fennec said, 3 months ago

    peter, please explain what is wrong with a community. As I see it, Homo sapiens is a successful species because it is a species that uses the advantages of community to advance the well-being of the individuals. We haven’t any special advantages in physical strength, speed, or sensory apparatus, but we do have social organization and speech to communicate societal objectives and cultural transmission. Also. given the long developmeental span of our young, without a structured society, we would never have made it to the top of the food chain. Some recent studies have, in fat, attributed our success in contrast to the Neanderthals to this combination of societal factors.

  25. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 3 months ago

    Some people may be buying into the BS that Obama is a communist, that is true. One of the unfortunate laws of public perception is that a lie told 1000 times may indeed be considered truth.

  26. petergrt

    petergrt said, 3 months ago

    The root word of communism is commune or community.

    The most successful such arrangements was accomplished by ants - over millions of years. No individualism.

    That is exactly why Mao started the ‘Cultural Revolution’ - to strip individuals of their individuality, in favor of the commune.

    Nietzsche advocated similar ideas, that were then adopted by Hitler.

    The bottom line is that humans differ from animals by their intellect and the resultant individualism.